Visually-guided attention enhances target identification in a complex auditory scene

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 294-304

  Best, Virginia ^a   Ozmeral, Erol J ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cueing; Informational masking; Spatial attention; Temporal attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247550023     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-007-0073-z     Document Type: Article

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